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What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet?

In demonstrations using 10 cars from eight makers, the researchers showed how they were able to unlock, start and drive away the cars in each case, by outsmarting the smart key system.

The break-ins were carried out using commercial, off-the-shelf electronic equipment available for as little as $100, the researchers said in a paper describing their exploits.

Although the possibility of such attacks on keyless systems has been discussed previously, it has not been clear before if they would be feasible on modern cars, the researchers said. "In this paper, we demonstrate that these attacks are both feasible and practical," they said.

Security is not a technical problem ;)

Making applications operable means that never again should operations personnel be stuck on the question, "The application appears hung, I wonder what it is doing?" All production code should be prepared to answer questions such as these at any time. "What are you doing?" and "How long is it taking?" are perfectly reasonable questions to ask of any piece of production code and you should demand a prompt and accurate answer. The resulting metric data is consumable by both dev and ops teams, and even by those teams’ managers. After all, trending metrics is not just about detecting problems. It is also fundamental to quantifying success. This is what it means to be operable. Software engineers everywhere, please make your software operable!

What follows is an email sent internally to Oracle Solaris Engineers which describes Oracle's true intentions toward the OpenSolaris project and the future of Oracle Solaris.

A new cosmology successfully explains the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy; but only if the universe has no beginning and no end

thought so

Coming out of stealth, SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can’t innovate in hardware anymore. The startup is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance but uses 75 percent less power and space than current servers.

It sounds impossible. But if SeaMicro can deliver, then it will deal a big blow to server vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. And it could delight customers with big data centers that are consuming too much power and are having a hard time keeping up with the demand for free internet services.

Looks interesting ;)

The ability to access open-source code is not the only advantage given to attackers. Ransbotham analysis showed a correlation between the existence of signatures--used by various security products to match a known pattern with a flaw--and earlier attacks, suggesting that the updates used by defenders to improve their defense actually help attackers.

"That tells me that there is something about having that signature that is helping people... giving them a clue about how to exploit the vulnerability," Ransbotham says.

However, a source familiar with Facebook tells SF Weekly that there's never been evidence of secret Facebook rituals aside from the usual team-building exercises.

That's why they are secret ;-)

Some poking around exposed the following chain of events: the company's make used a novel format to print out the absolute path of the directory in which the compiler ran; our script misparsed this path, producing the empty string that we gave as the destination to the Unix "cd" (change directory) command, causing it to change to the top level of the system; it ran "rm -rf *" (recursive delete) during compilation to clean up temporary files; and the build process ran as root. Summing these points produces the removal of all files on the system.

nice feature ;-)